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34 7 ISSUE.Indd Volume 34 Issue 7 IMS Bulletin August/September 2005 2005 IMS Election Results CONTENTS 1 IMS Election results 2-5 Members’ News 6-7 Obituaries: George Dantzig and Adhir Kumar Basu Congratulations to the new IMS Council members and President-Elect! 6 Medallion Lecture preview Pictured in the top row [l-r]: Maury Bramson, Merlise Clyde, John Einmahl, Jun Liu, and Daniel Peña are the new members of Council. 8 Annual Survey of the Jim Pitman [right] is the new President-Elect. All of them will be Mathematical Sciences taking up their new roles at the 68th IMS Annual Meeting at the Joint 11 New journal to improve Statistical Meetings which take place in Minneapolis, August 7–11. electronic publishing We are pleased to announce the results of the 2005 IMS Elections. Th e next President- 12 Terence’s Stuff : Going to Elect will be Jim Pitman (UC Berkeley). Th e 5 new council members are, in alpha- China betical order, Maury Bramson (University of Minneapolis), Merlise Clyde (Duke 13 Meet the Members University), John Einmahl (Tilburg University, Th e Netherlands), Jun Liu (Harvard 14 Profi les: Martin Barlow & University), and Daniel Peña (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain). A total of 860 David Spiegelhalter votes were cast, with just 4 paper ballots received. According to the IMS constitution, there are at least 15 members of Council, whi 16 Meeting reports: SPA05 and satellite workshop serve for three years, with the terms of approximately one third terminating at each year’s Annual Meeting (you can read the IMS handbook online, or download it from 17 Letter to the Editor http://www.imstat.org/handbook/). Retiring from Council this year are Alan Karr, J 18 IMS Meetings Steve Marron, Per Mykland, David W Scott, and Jane-Ling Wang. We thank them for 25 Other Meetings and their service. Announcements Th e new council members will join Richard Gill, Hans R Künsch, Christian P Robert and Ruth J Williams, who will serve for another year, and Susan Holmes, 28 Employment Opportunities Nancy Flournoy, Erwin Bolthausen, Michael Steele, and Xuming He, whose terms last another two years. 32 International Calendar of Statistical Events 35 Information for Advertisers At which meeting was this beautiful butterfl y spotted? Turn to page 16 to fi nd out! Photo: Ian Carlson 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 34 . Issue 7 IMS Bulletin Volume 34, Issue 7 August/September 2005 Member News ISSN 1544-1881 2005 SSC Honorary Memberships The Statistical Society of Canada announced that Professor Contact A K Md Ehsanes Saleh of Carleton University and Professor James Information V Zidek of the University of British Columbia have been awarded Honorary Memberships in the Society. An Honorary member is a Bulletin Editor Bernard Silverman statistical scientist of outstanding distinction who has contributed Assistant Editor Tati Howell to the development of statistics in Canada. Professor Emeritus A K Md Ehsanes Saleh is awarded the rank Honorary SSC members To contact the IMS Bulletin: Ehsanes Saleh (above) of Honorary Member of the SSC for his outstanding research and and James Zidek (below) Send by email: [email protected] development of nonparametric methods for preliminary test and or mail to: shrinkage estimation, auto-regression quantiles, and order statistics; IMS Bulletin for his superb service towards the development of graduate pro- 20 Shadwell Uley, Dursley grams at Carleton University and the training of PhD and young GL11 5BW postdoctoral fellows in statistics; for his dedicated service to the UK profession, especially in the creative organization of symposia with edited volumes. Professor Saleh is a Fellow of IMS, ASA, Royal Statistical Society and the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, and an To contact the IMS regarding your dues, membership, subscriptions, orders or elected member of ISI. change of address: Professor Zidek, who is also an IMS Fellow, has made fundamental research contribu- tions ranging from theoretical foundations for decision making to environmental modeling Institute of Mathematical Statistics Dues and Subscriptions Office of spatial air pollution data. For his work, he has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L2407A of Canada and was awarded the SSC Gold Medal in 2000, the Ninth Eugene Lukacs Bethesda, Symposium Distinguished Service Award, the Distinguished Achievement Medal of the MD 20814-3998 Environmental Statistics Section of the ASA, and the Izaak Walton Killam Research Prize. USA He has served the statistical community in many ways, including as NSERC Group Chair t 301.634.7029 of the Mathematical Sciences and President of the Statistical Society of Canada. Professor f 301.634.7099 Zidek was also the first Head of UBC’s Department of Statistics. e staff@imstat.org To contact the IMS regarding any other 2005 CRM-SSC Prize matter, including advertising, copyright The Statistical Society of Canada announced today that Professor permission, offprint orders, copyright Jiahua Chen of the University of Waterloo has been awarded transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows nominations and content of the CRM-SSC Prize for 2005. The SSC-CRM Prize is awarded publications: annually by the Statistical Society of Canada and the Centre de Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson recherches mathématiques in recognition of a statistical scientist’s IMS Business Office professional accomplishments in research during the first fifteen PO Box 22718 years after earning a doctorate. Beachwood, Professor Chen’s research is remarkable for its breadth, depth OH 44122 and quality. Within 15 years of his PhD, he has made major sustained contributions USA to three areas: design of experiments, inference for mixtures, and survey methodology. t 216.295.2340 f 216.295.5661 Professor Chen combines powerful mathematical ability with keen insight into what is e [email protected] important statistically. His work combines deep theory and practical methodology for deal- ing with difficult issues. Professor Chen has written papers on many other topics including fish surveys, fractals, genetics and robust estimation. Executive Committee August/September . 2005 IMS Bulletin . 3 President: Louis Chen [email protected] President-Elect: Thomas G Kurtz [email protected] Past President: Terry Speed Shelemyahu Zacks receives Haifa University Honorary DPhil [email protected] Nitis Mukhopadhyay reports: Professor Shelemyahu Zacks of Executive Secretary: Alicia Carriquiry Binghamton University, New York, has been awarded an honorary [email protected] degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Haifa. The citation for the Honoris Causa degree was for his “innovative and Treasurer: Jiayang Sun [email protected] multifarious contribution to the study of statistics and the advance- ment and development of applied statistics in various scientific Program Secretary: Andrew Nobel fields; and in token of his longstanding aid to the University of [email protected] Haifa’s Department of Statistics through teaching and research.” Professor Zacks is best known for his groundbreaking research IMS Editors on change-point and common mean problems, Bayes sequential Annals of Statistics: Morris Eaton [email protected] strategies and reliability analysis. He made fundamental contribu- & Jianqing Fan tions in naval research and other defense related areas. He is widely [email protected] published, with more than 150 journal articles, and his authorita- Annals of Probability: Steven Lalley tive book, The Theory of Statistical Inference (1971, Wiley). Many [email protected] hold him in the highest esteem as a mentor. Annals of Applied Probability: Robert Adler Professor Zacks is an elected Fellow of IMS, ASA, the American Association for the [email protected] Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. See “A Conversation with Shelemyahu Zacks” by Nitis Mukhopadhyay (2005, Statist. Sci., Statistical Science: Ed George [email protected] no. 1, vol 20, pp. 89-110) for more details about Professor Zacks. IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series: Richard Vitale [email protected] Scott Grimshaw receives 2005 Hartley Award Managing Editor, Statistics: Paul Shaman Dr Scott Grimshaw is the 2005 recipient of the H O Hartley Award given by the Texas [email protected] A&M Department of Statistics. The H O Hartley Award is given annually to a former Managing Editor, Probability: Michael Phelan student of the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University for distinguished service [email protected] to the discipline of statistics. Electronic Journal of Probability: Ted Cox Dr Grimshaw is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at Brigham Young [email protected] University. He received his PhD from Texas A&M in 1989 under the direction of Professor Electronic Communications in Probability: Martin Barlow Emanuel Parzen. The Hartley Award is in honor of the founder of the department, [email protected] H O Hartley. The award committee attempts to select a recipient who parallels Dr Hartley’s Managing Editor, EJP/ECP: Zhenqing Chen well-rounded career. Dr Grimshaw’s career has not only included [email protected] distinguished service, but has demonstrated excellence in teaching, research and consulting. In the spirit of H O Hartley, Dr Grimshaw Probability Surveys: David Aldous is a great teacher; his research is characterized by developing new [email protected] statistical methodology to provide solutions to real-world problems IMS Bulletin: Bernard Silverman arising from business and engineering. An outstanding example & Tati Howell [email protected] of this research is his paper in Technometrics, “Eliciting Factor Importance in a Designed Experiment”, for which he received Web Editor: Hemant Ishwaran the 2001 Wilcoxon Prize. His service contributions and outreach [email protected] & Arti Ishwaran activities are extensive. The Hartley Award will be presented to Dr Herman Otto Hartley [email protected] Grimshaw during the Aggie Reunion on August 8, 2005 at the (1912–1980) was an IMS Joint Statistical Meetings in Minneapolis.
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